In dvb_register_device, *pdvbdev is set equal to dvbdev, which is freed in several error-handling paths. However, *pdvbdev is not set to NULL after dvbdev's deallocation, causing use-after-frees in many places, for example, in the following call chain: budget_register |-> dvb_dmxdev_init |-> dvb_register_device |-> dvb_dmxdev_release |-> dvb_unregister_device |-> dvb_remove_device |-> dvb_device_put |-> kref_put When calling dvb_unregister_device, dmxdev->dvbdev (i.e. *pdvbdev in dvb_register_device) could point to memory that had been freed in dvb_register_device. Thereafter, this pointer is transferred to kref_put and triggering a use-after-free. Fixes: b61901024776 ("V4L/DVB (5244): Dvbdev: fix illegal re-usage of fileoperations struct") Signed-off-by: Zhipeng Lu <alexious@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c index 305bb21d843c..a027b9110793 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c @@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap, struct dvb_device **pdvbdev, dvbdevfops = kmemdup(template->fops, sizeof(*dvbdevfops), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dvbdevfops) { kfree(dvbdev); + *pdvbdev = NULL; mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); return -ENOMEM; } @@ -496,6 +497,7 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap, struct dvb_device **pdvbdev, if (!new_node) { kfree(dvbdevfops); kfree(dvbdev); + *pdvbdev = NULL; mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); return -ENOMEM; } @@ -529,6 +531,7 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap, struct dvb_device **pdvbdev, } list_del(&dvbdev->list_head); kfree(dvbdev); + *pdvbdev = NULL; up_write(&minor_rwsem); mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); return -EINVAL; @@ -551,6 +554,7 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap, struct dvb_device **pdvbdev, dvb_media_device_free(dvbdev); list_del(&dvbdev->list_head); kfree(dvbdev); + *pdvbdev = NULL; mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); return ret; } @@ -569,6 +573,7 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap, struct dvb_device **pdvbdev, dvb_media_device_free(dvbdev); list_del(&dvbdev->list_head); kfree(dvbdev); + *pdvbdev = NULL; mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); return PTR_ERR(clsdev); } -- 2.34.1